Maximilien Sebastien Foy

Maximilien Sebastien Foy (3 February 1775-28 November 1825) was a general and count of the First French Empire and a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of France from 1819 to 1825.

Biography
Maximilien Sebastien Foy was born in Ham, France on 3 February 1775, and he became an artillery lieutenant in the French Revolutionary Army in 1792. He was rapidly promoted during the French Revolutionary Wars, fighting at the Battle of Valmy and the Battle of Jemappes before being promoted to company command. Foy served as a colonel in Auguste Marmont's II Corps during the Napoleonic Wars, and, while serving in the Peninsular War, he was wounded at the Battle of Vimeiro, the Second Battle of Porto, and the Battle of Bussaco; he rose to divisional command in Marshal Nicolas Soult's army by 1813, and, after distinguishing himself at the Battle of the Nive in December 1813, he was made a Count of the First French Empire. When Napoleon returned from his exile on Elba during the "Hundred Days" of 1815, Foy rallied to the Emperor and received his fifteenth wound at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June. During the Bourbon Restoration era, he wrote a history of the Peninsular War and went on to serve in the Chamber of Deputies from 1819 to 1825, becoming leader of the opposition during the rule of the Ultra-Royalists. He died in 1825.